Aspects of Worker Well-Being

Outline

Understanding how worker well-being is distributed across the population is of paramount importance. With such knowledge policy makers can devise efficient strategies to improve social welfare. This volume contains 13 chapters on topics enhancing our comprehension of inequality across workers. The issues addressed deal directly with the economic institutions that affect individual and family earnings distributions. The themes explored include job training, worker and firm mobility, minimum wages, wage arrears, unions, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening family earnings distribution? To what extent does deunionization widen the distribution of earnings? Do computers really cause a widening of the earnings distribution? How would the Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears? How much of job creation and job destruction comes about because of business relocation? To what extent does maternal education increase children's education? Why do increases in the minimum wage fail to substantially decrease employment as economic theory would predict? And, to what extent do job skills matter for low-income workers?

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Chapters

• John Pencavel Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband–Wife Families
• David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Brandon Wall Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
• Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan Who Pays for General Training in Private Sector Britain?
• Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth Wage Arrears and Inequality in the Distribution of Pay: Lessons from Russia
• Michael J. Handel Computers and the Wage Structure
• Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang The Influence of Stocks and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices
• Rucker C. Johnson Wage and Job Dynamics after Welfare Reform: The Importance of Job Skills
• Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis using Employer–Employee Data
• John T. Addison, Ralph W. Bailey, W. Stanley Siebert The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited
• Diane Dancer, Anu Rammohan Maternal Education and Child Schooling Outcomes in Nepal
• Sara Lemos Minimum Wage Effects on Wages, Employment and Prices in Brazil
• Cary Deck, Amy Farmer Bargaining and Arbitration with Asymmetric Uncertainty
• Sumati Srinivas, Michael Sattinger The Employment–Productivity Relationship with Employment Criteria

• Volume Details
• Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Olivier Bargain
• Publication date 21 May 2007
• ISBN 978-0-7623-1390-7
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec